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# Telegram


<img src="https://netdata.cloud/img/telegram.svg" width="150"/>


Send notifications to Telegram using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more.


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## Setup


### Prerequisites

#### 

- A bot token. To get one, contact the [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) bot and send the command `/newbot` and follow the instructions. Invite your bot to a group where you want it to send messages.
- The chat ID for every chat you want to send messages to. Invite [@myidbot](https://t.me/myidbot) bot to the group that will receive notifications, and write the command `/getgroupid@myidbot` to get the group chat ID. Group IDs start with a hyphen, supergroup IDs start with `-100`.
- Terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure.



### Configuration

#### Options

The following options can be defined for this notification

<details open><summary>Config Options</summary>



| Option | Description | Default | Required |
|:-----|:------------|:--------|:---------:|
| SEND_TELEGRAM | Set `SEND_TELEGRAM` to YES | YES | yes |
| TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN | set `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` to your bot token. |  | yes |
| DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM | Set the `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM` variable in your config file to your Telegram chat ID (find it with @myidbot). Separate multiple chat IDs with spaces. To send alerts to a specific topic within a chat, use `chatID:topicID`. |  | yes |

##### DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM

All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured.

The `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_CUSTOM` can be edited in the following entries at the bottom of the same file:

```text
role_recipients_telegram[sysadmin]="-49999333324"
role_recipients_telegram[domainadmin]="-49999333389"
role_recipients_telegram[dba]="-10099992222"
role_recipients_telegram[webmaster]="-10099992222 -49999333389"
role_recipients_telegram[proxyadmin]="-49999333344"
role_recipients_telegram[sitemgr]="-49999333876"
```



</details>



#### via File

The configuration file name for this integration is `health_alarm_notify.conf`.


You can edit the configuration file using the [`edit-config`](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/README.md#edit-a-configuration-file-using-edit-config) script from the
Netdata [config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/netdata-agent/configuration/README.md#the-netdata-config-directory).

```bash
cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config health_alarm_notify.conf
```

##### Examples

###### Basic Configuration



```yaml
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# telegram (telegram.org) global notification options

SEND_TELEGRAM="YES"
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="111122223:7OpFlFFRzRBbrUUmIjj5HF9Ox2pYJZy5"
DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_TELEGRAM="-49999333876"

```


## Troubleshooting

### Test Notification

You can run the following command by hand, to test alerts configuration:

```bash
# become user netdata
sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata

# enable debugging info on the console
export NETDATA_ALARM_NOTIFY_DEBUG=1

# send test alarms to sysadmin
/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test

# send test alarms to any role
/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh test "ROLE"
```

Note that this will test _all_ alert mechanisms for the selected role.


